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Seventy-seven  Boards 
Make  One 

Platform  for  Millions 
to  Stand  on: 

Unity — in  plans  and  purposes 
Economy— -in  men  and  money 
Efficiency — in  efforts  and  effects 

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THE 

MISSIONARY  EDUCATION 
MOVEMENT 


OFFICERS 

Samuel  Thorne,  Jr . Chairman 

H.  Paul  Douglass  ....  Vice-Chairman 
F.  C.  Stephenson  .  .  .  Recording  Secretary 

Ernest  F.  Hall  ....  General  Secretary 
James  M.  Speers . Treasurer 


CAMPAIGN  COMMITTEE 

Fred.  P.  Haggard  ....  Chairman 

James  M.  Speers . Treasurer 

S.  M.  Bard . D  irector 

F.  B.  Hodgins . Secretary 

Samuel  Thorne,  Jr. 

G.  F.  Sutherland 
William  P.  Schell 
C.  C.  Michener 


160  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW  YORK 


THE  MOVEMENT 


HE  Missionary  Education  Movement  is  engaged  in 


a  nation-wide  cooperative  effort  to  bring  home  to 


-*■  people  the  work  and  needs  of  missions  throughout  the 
world.  Seventy-seven  home  and  foreign  mission  boards 
unite  in  using  this  Movement  as  a  clearing  house  to 
produce  literature  for  study  iu  the  churches.  This  litera¬ 
ture  and  other  helps  are  graded,  as  in  the  field  of  secular 
education. 

The  Movement  was  organized  in  July,  1902,  at  Silver 
Bay,  on  Lake  George,  N.  Y. 

The  management  is  composed  of  mission  board  secre¬ 
taries  and  laymen. 


ITS  WORK 


Conducts  seven  conferences  every  year. 

Holds  missionary  institutes. 

Furnishes  teachers  and  speakers  for  church, 
Sunday  school,  and  young  people’s  conventions. 

Circulates  stereopticon  lectures. 

Organizes  missionary  exhibits  and  furnishes 
exhibit  material. 

Publishes  missionary  literature  for  all  ages, 
grades  and  organizations  in  the  local  church. 


RESULTS 


1,547,664  text-books  have  been  published  and  sold  in 
the  sixteen  years  of  the  Movement’s  activities. 

Millions  of  copies  of  kindred  publications  have  been 
issued  annually. 

More  than  100,000  mission  study  classes  have  been  held. 
2,000,000  members  of  these  classes  are  now  the  leaders  in 
the  churches.  Many  more  millions,  young  and  old,  ha\e 


been  informed  through  other  methods.  Hundreds  have 
entered  Christian  forms  of  life-work. 

16,800  leaders  have  been  given  advanced  teacher  training 
in  summer  conferences  for  missionary  leadership.  More 
than  twice  that  number  have  received  like  training  in 
institutes  and  other  educational  gatherings. 


ESTIMATED  RECEIPTS  FOR  THE 


CURRENT  YEAR 

Sale  of  literature .  $26,000.00 

Contributions .  38,071.00 

Interest  from  Endowment  Fund  (See  Note  1).  850.00 

$64,921.00 


EXPENSES,  AS  PER  BUDGET,  1917-18 

Salaries .  $17,835.00 

General  office  expenses .  5,000.00 

Publications.  .  36,670.00 

Educational  promotion .  5,416.00 

$64,921.00 


NOTE  1 — ENDOWMENT  FUND 
4  Bonds  Mia  mi  Conservancy  Dist.,  Ohio,  5  34%  $4,000.00 


4  Bonds  Pere  Marquette,  434% .  4,000.00 

3  Bonds  Louisville  &  Nashville,  6% .  3,000.00 

1  Bond  Western  Light  &  Power  Company,  5%  300.00 

20  Shares  Virginia  Carolina  Chemical  Company  1,000.00 


$12,300.00 

NOTE  2 

To  meet  the  war  period  deficit,  provide  the  budget  for 
the  balance  of  1918  and  to  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year, 
December  1.  1919,  $412,750  will  be  raised  in  a  series  of 
drives  beginning  in  September. 


Board  of  Managers  of  the 

MISSIONARY  EDUCATION  MOVEMENT 

JULY  •  1918 


AITCHISON,  REV.  J.  Y„  D.D. 

Home  Secretary,  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society, 
Ford  Building.  Boston,  Mass. 

ANTHONY,  REV.  A.  W. 

Executive  Secretary,  Home  Missions  Council,  156  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York. 

ARMSTRONG,  REV.  A.  E. 

Assistant  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions,  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Canada,  439  Confederation  Life  Bldg..  Toronto.  Canada. 

ARMSTRONG.  MR.  JOHN  I. 

Educational  Secretary,  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions,  Presbyterian  Church,  P.  O.  Box  158.  Nashville, Tennessee. 

BEARD,  REV.  W.  S. 

Assistant  Secretary,  Congregational  Home  Missionary  Society, 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

♦BROKAW,  MR.  GEORGE  T. 

165  Broadway,  New  York  City. 

BROOKS,  REV.  C.  A.  , 

Secretary  of  City  Missions,  American  Baptist  Home  Missionary 
Society,  23  East  26th  Street,  New  York  City. 

♦BROWN,  REV.  ARTHUR  J.,  D.D. 

Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.S.A.,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
BROWN.  MR.  FRANK  L. 

General  Secretary,  World's  Sunday  School  Association,  1  Madi¬ 
son  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

BROWN.  REV.  J.  G. 

General  Secretary,  Canadian  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Board, 
223  Church  Street,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

BRUNNER,  MR.  EDMUND  deS. 

Secretary,  Country  Church  Commission  of  the  Moravian 
Church,  225  North  Tenth  Street,  Easton,  Pennsylvania. 

BURTON,  REV.  CHARLES  E. 

General  Secretary,  Congregational  Home  Mission  Society, 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

CARMAN,  MR.  W.  W. 

Estate  of  D.  Willis  James,  99  John  Street,  New  York  City. 
CARR,  MR.  A.  E. 

Silver,  Burdette  &  Company,  221  Columbus  Avenue,  Boston. 

^CHAMBERLAIN,  REV.  W.  I.,  Ph.D. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Reformed 
Church  in  America,  25  East  22nd  Street.  New  York  City. 
CRONK,  REV.  E.  C.,  D.D. 

Southern  Secretary,  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement,  1  South 
Boulevard,  Richmond,  Virginia. 

*DAY,  MR.  DWIGHT  H. 

Treasurer,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  Lb  S.  A.,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

*  Member  of  Finance  Committee 


DIFFENDORFER,  MR.  R.  E. 

Board  of  Home  Missions  and  Church  Extension,  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  1701  Arch  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
DOUGHTY,  REV.  W.  E. 

Educational  Secretary,  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement, 
1  Madison  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

DOUGLASS,  REV.  H.  PAUL 

Corresponding  Secretary,  American  Missionary  Association, 
287  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

EDDY,  REV.  D.  BREWER 

Associate  Secretary,  Home  Department,  American  Board  of 
Commissioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  Boston. 

ENDICOTT,  REV.  JAMES,  D.D. 

General  Secretary',  Foreign  Missions,  The  Missionary  Society 
of  the  Methodist  Church,  Canada,  Toronto. 

FELTON,  MR.  RALPH  A. 

Educational  Secretary,  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S.A.,  156  Fifth  Ave.,  N.  Y.  City 
FISHER,  REV.  MILES  B. 

Missionary  Secretary,  Congregational  Education  Society, 
14  Beacon  Street,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

FORSYTH.  REV.  D.  D. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  The  Board  of  Home  Missions  Meth¬ 
odist  Episcopal  Church,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

GANTZ,  MR.  WILLIAM  O., 

Gantz  &  Tucker,  Lawyers,  92  William  Street,  N.  Y.  City. 
GIBBARD,  MR.  G.  W. 

Naponee,  Ontario,  Canada. 

GUNN,  REV.  W.  T. 

Secretary,  Congregational  Foreign  Missionary  Society,  33 
Victor  Avenue,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

HAGGARD,  REV.  F.  P.,  D.D. 

Secretary'  Baptist  Laymen’s  Missionary'  Movement,  200  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York  City. 

HADLEY,  MR.  ROSS  A. 

Assistant  Secretary,  American  Friends  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  Richmond,  Indiana. 

HOPKINS,  MR.  R.  M. 

Secretary,  American  Christian  Missionary  Society.  Carew 
Building,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

*HORNE,  MR.  FRANK  A. 

President  Merchants’  Refrigerating  Company',  161  Chambers 
Street,  New  York  City. 

HOUGH,  REV.  S.  S.,  D.D. 

General  Secretary,  Foreign  Missionary  Society  of  the  United 
Brethren  in  Christ,  1003  U.  B.  Building,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

HOUNSHELL,  REV.  C.  G. 

Educational  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  South,  810  Broadway,  Nashville,  Tenn. 

HUTCHISON,  REV.  R.  A.,  D.D. 

Corresponding  Secretary,  The  Board  of  Home  Missions, 
United  Presbyterian  Church  Building,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. 
JOHNSON,  REV.  GEORGE 

Secretary,  Evangelical  Association,  1903  Woodland  Avenue. 
S.E.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

*  Member  of  Finance  Committee 


kUNZMANN,  MR.  J.  C. 

Secretary,  Board  of  Home  Missions,  General  Council,  S46 
Drexel  Building,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

*LEACH,  MR.  F.  R. 

Treasurer,  E.  R.  Squibb  &:  Sons,  Manufacturing  Chemists. 
80  Beekman  Street,  New  York  City. 

LeSOURD,  MR.  G.  Q. 

Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

LIPPHARD,  REV.  W.  B. 

Assistant  Secretary,  American  Baptist  Foreign  Mission  Society. 
Box  41,  Boston,  Massachusetts. 

McAFEE,  MR.  J.  E. 

200  Clermont  Avenue,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 

MACKAY,  REV.  R.  P.,  D.D. 

Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  Presbyterian  Church  in 
Canada,  Confederation  Life  Bldg.,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

McMillan,  rev.  homer,  d.d. 

Secretary',  The  Executive  Committee  of  Home  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S.,  1522  Hurt  Bldg.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

MARQUIS,  REV.  JOHN  A.,  D.D. 

General  Secretary',  Board  of  Home  Missions  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
*M ICHENER,  MR.  C.  C. 

President,  Silver  Bay  Association,  Silver  Bay  on  Lake  George, 
New  York.  New  York  City  address,  347  Madison  Avenue. 

MILLAR,  MR.  W.  B. 

General  Secretary,  Laymen’s  Missionary  Movement,  1  Madi¬ 
son  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

MILLIGAN,  MISS  ANNA  A. 

Educational  Secretary,  United  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  200  North  15th  Street,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

MILLIKIN,  MR.  B.  CARTER 

Educational  Secretary',  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S.A.,  156  Fifth  Ave.,  N.  Y.  City. 

*OLCOTT,  MR.  E.  E. 

President  Hudson  River  Day  Line,  Desbrosses  Street  Pier, 
New  York  City. 

POORMAN,  MR.  JOHN  H. 

Secretary,  Mission  Study  Department,  Reformed  Church  in  the 
U.S.,  15th  and  Race  Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 
*POST,  MR.  JAMES  H. 

B.  H.  Howell  &  Company,  129  Front  Street,  New  York  City. 
RAY,  REV.  T.  BRONSON,  D.D. 

Foreign  Mission  Board  of  the  Southern  Baptist  Convention, 
1103  Main  Street,  Richmond,  Virginia. 

SAILER,  DR.  T.  H.  P. 

Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions,  156  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York  City. 

SCHAEFFER,  REV.  CHARLES  E.,  D.D. 

Secretary,  Board  of  Home  Missions,  Reformed  Church  in  the 
U.S.,  15th  and  Race  Streets,  Philadelphia,  Pennsylvania. 

SCHELL,  REV.  WILLIAM  P. 

Assistant  Secretary,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Presby¬ 
terian  Church,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

*  Member  of  Finance  Committee 


CA 

V 


*SMITH,  REV.  EDWARD  LINCOLN 

Secretary,  Home  Department,  American  -Board  of  Commis¬ 
sioners  for  Foreign  Missions,  287  Fourth  Avenue,  N.  Y.  City. 
SPEERS,  MR.  JAMES  M. 

President,  James  McCutcheon  &  Company,  Fifth  Avenue  and 
34th  Street,  New  York  City. 

STARK,  MR.  H.  L. 

75  South  Drive,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 

STEPHENSON,  REV.  F.  C. 

Educational  Secretary,  Missionary  Society  of  the  Methodist 
Church,  Canada,  Wesley  Building,  Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada. 
*STURGIS,  DR.  WILLIAM  C. 

Educational  Secretary,  Board  of  Missions,  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  281  Fourth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 

*SUFFERN,  MR.  PHILIP  S. 

Bowers,  Suffern  &  Luery,  120  Broadway,  New  York  City. 
SUTHERLAND,  REV.  GEORGE  F. 

Assistant  Treasurer,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Method¬ 
ist  Episcopal  Church,  150  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  City. 
THOMAS,  REV.  OMER  S. 

Home  Secretary',  Christian  Mission  Board,  C.  P.  A.  Building, 
Dayton,  Ohio. 

THORNE,  MR.  LANDON  K. 

William  Bonbright  &  Company,  Inc.,  19  Nassau  St.,  N.  Y.  City 
*THORNE,  MR.  SAMUEL,  JR. 

Delafield,  Howe,  Thorne  &  Rogers,  Attorneys  and  Counsellors 
at  Law,  Room  1803,  27  Cedar  Street,  New  York  City. 
TRULL,  REV.  GEORGE  H. 

Secretary  for  Special  Work,  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.  S.  A.,  156  Fifth  Avenue,  N.  Y.  C. 

Warner,  prof,  lamont  a. 

Centenary  Committee,  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  111  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York. 

WATSON,  MR.  W.  G. 

Auditorium  Hotel,  Denver.  Colorado. 

*WELCH,  MR.  EDGAR  T. 

Welch  Grape  Juice  Company,  Westfield,  New  York. 
*WHITE,  REV.  C.  L. 

Corresponding  Secretary',  The  American  Baptist  Home  Mission 
Society,  23  East  26th  Street,  New  York  City. 

WILLIAMS,  REV.  H.  F.,  D.D. 

Field  Secretary,  Executive  Committee  of  Foreign  Missions. 
Presbyterian  Church,  P.  O.  Box  158,  Nashville,  Tennessee. 
WILSON,  MR.  BERT 

Secretary,  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society,  Box  884, 
Cincinnati,  Ohio 

WILSON,  REV.  WARREN  H.,  D.D. 

Superintendent  Country  Life  Department,  Board  of  Home 
Missions,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  U.S. A.,  New  York  City. 
WOLF.  REV.  L.  B.,  D.D. 

General  Secretary,  The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  Evangelical 
Lutheran  Church  in  the  U.S. A.,  Baltimore.  Maryland. 

*  Member  of  Finance  Committee 


v* .  -  ■* 


Seventy-seven  Boards 
Make  One 

Platform  for  Millions 
to  Stand  on: 


Unity — in  plans  and  purposes 
Economy — in  men  and  money 
Efficiency — in  efforts  and  effects 


THE  MOVEMENT 


HE  Missionary  Education  Movement  is  engaged 


in  a  nation-wide  cooperative  effort  to  bring 


home  to  people  the  work  and  needs  of  missions 
throughout  the  world.  Seventy-seven  home  and  foreign 
mission  boards  unite  in  using  this  Movement  as  a 
clearing  house  to  produce  literature  for  study  in  the 
churches.  This  literature  and  other  helps  are  graded, 
as  in  the  field  of  secular  education. 

The  Movement  was  organized  in  July,  1902,  at  Silver 
Bay,  on  Lake  George,  N.  Y. 

The  management  is  composed  of  mission  board  secre¬ 
taries  and  laymen. 


ITS  WORK 


Conducts  seven  summer  conferences  every  year. 
Holds  missionary  institutes. 

Conducts  city-wide  educational  campaigns. 
Furnishes  teachers  and  speakers  for  church, 

Sunday  school,  and  young  people’s  conventions. 
Circulates  stereopticon  lectures. 

Organizes  missionary  exhibits  and  furnishes 
exhibit  material. 

Publishes  missionary  literature  for  all  ages,  grades 
and  organizations  in  the  local  church. 


RESULTS 


1,547,664  text-books  have  been  published  and  sold  in 
the  sixteen  years  of  the  Movement’s  activities. 

Millions  of  copies  of  kindred  publications  have  been 
issued  annually. 

More  than  100,000  mission  study  classes  have  been 
held.  2,000,000  members  of  these  classes  are  now  the 

The  help  of  friends  who  realize  the  permaner 
in  providing  for  the  budget  for  the  current  year. 

Kindly  make  checks  payable  to  James  M.  ! 
Missionary  Education  Movement,  160  Fifth  Avenue, 


leaders  in  the  churches.  Many  more  millions,  young 
and  old,  have  been  informed  through  other  methods. 
Hundreds  have  entered  Christian  forms  of  life-work. 

16,800  leaders  have  been  given  advanced  teacher 
training  in  summer  conferences  for  missionary  leader¬ 
ship.  More  than  twice  that  number  have  received  like 
training  in  institutes  and  other  educational  gatherings. 

ESTIMATED  RECEIPTS  FOR  THE 
CURRENT  YEAR 

Sale  of  literature . $26,000.00 

Contributions .  38,071.00 

Interest  from  Endownment  Fund  (SeeNote  1).  850.00 

$64,921.00 


EXPENSES,  AS  PER  BUDGET,  1917-18 


Salaries . $17,835.00 

General  office  expenses .  5,000.00 

Publications .  36,670.00 

Educational  promotion .  5,416.00 


$64,921.00 

NOTE  1 -ENDOWMENT  FUND 
4  Bonds  Miami  Conservancy  Dist.,  Ohio,  5  l/i  $4,000.00 


4  Bonds  Pere  Marquette,  4  ]A  % .  4,000.00 

3  Bonds  Louisville  &  Nashville,  6%  .  .  .  .  3,000.00 

1  Bond  Western  Light  &  Power  Co.,  5%  .  300.00 

20  Shares  Virginia  Carolina  Chemical  Co.  .  1,000.00 


$12,300.00 

NOTE  2 

To  meet  the  war  period  deficit,  provide  the  budget 
for  the  balance  of  1918  and  to  the  end  of  the  fiscal  year, 
December  1,  1919,  $112,750.00  must  be  raised. 


lent  worth  of  such  an  investment  is  earnestly  sought 

[.  Speers,  Treasurer,  and  mail  to  the  office  of  the 
te,  New  York. 


The 

Missionary  Education 
Movement 


General  Officers 

Samuel  Thorne  Jr.,  Chairman 
H.  Paul  Douglass,  Vice-Chairman 
F.  C.  Stephenson,  Recording  Secretary 
James  M.  Speers,  Treasurer 


Executive  Officers 

Ernest  Freeman  Hall,  General  Secretary 

Franklin  D.  Cogswell  !  Educational  Secretaries 
Susan  Mendenhall  j 

Herbert  L.  Hill,  Business  Manager 


Finance  Committee 
Samuel  Thorne  Jr.,  Chairman 


George  T.  Brokaw 
Arthur  J.  Brown 


James  M.  Speers 
Dwight  H.  Day 
Frank  A.  Horne 


William  I.  Chamberlain 


Frederick  R.  Leach 


C.  C.  Michener 
E.  E.  Olcott 
James  H.  Post 
William  C.  Sturgis 
Edward  Lincoln  Smith 
Philip  S.  Suffem 
Edgar  T.  Welch 


Charles  L.  White 


160  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York 


